Something Better Quotes

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

I hope that something better comes along.

I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.

If I got a superpower I wouldn't say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.